The short-form week of 6–12 Apr 2009
13 Apr 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 43 messages in 40 conversations.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Monday at 06:24pm
Sarah Milstein announces the—@ndw
Monday at 06:26pm
Monday at 06:26pm
Ha! Bitten by the hash in my command line tweet/dent client.—@ndw
Monday at 08:36pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:42pm
Working on"The Twitter Book" with @SarahMhttp://bit.ly/Xv7Rw It's looking really good, moving along quickly.—@timoreilly
Tuesday at 04:53pm
Wednesday at 05:43am
The redeye seemed like a bad idea so I opted for the 6:10a departure instead. Now
getting up a 3:30, I'm not really sure I chose wisely.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:48am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:52am
@ndw You're not alone. Mozilla, JDK & python all use hg. It's not a bad thing.—@happygiraffe
@happygiraffe Yeah. I'm not unhappy with hg, I just remember that it was a coin toss when I picked
it.—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:37am
Gmail on the iPhone seems to have received a face lift. Clever but maybe a bit distracting?
Not after I get used to it I suppose.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:42pm
_It's not Straight Marriage. It's not Gay Marriage. It's just Marriage. A state-sponsored
contract that morons enter into.—@terrisCA
Wednesday at 04:24pm
Appropriate attire departing PHX not so appropriate arriving BDL. Go figure.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:37am
discovering that cryptic 'to do' notes left on one's desk long enough eventually become
incomprehensible and can be discarded.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:59am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:52am
Holy $#@! AMC is making The Prisoner as a modern miniseries. How cool is that?—@ndw
@ndw I'm skeptical about remakes - think "The Day The Earth Stood Still" - but the team
doing the new "Prisoner" seems respectful...—@geoffarnold
@geoffarnold Yes, I think a straight-up remake would be pointless, but reinterpreting the characters
in the 21st century could be cool—@ndw
Thursday at 01:13pm
Jump scroll in TweetDeck drove me away again—@ndw
Thursday at 01:36pm
Rebranding pointers into FOAF files as "Web IDs", http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebID Really? I guess if it catches on, but... Really? Really?—@ndw
Thursday at 01:48pm
@shudson310 It's an http: URI so it's, you know, useful.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:02pm
NSA and cyber security from Wired. Well said. http://tinyurl.com/cud3no—@ndw
Thursday at 03:43pm
Oh, crap in a hat. I forgot to submit my expenses for XML Prague. Anyone remember
what I spent and where?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:46pm
Dear iTunes, plz index music where I put it. Don't copy, move, change, organize or
any thing else. Just build a freaking index, k?—@ndw
Thursday at 03:56pm
Laser graffiti. Is this real? I have a hard time imagining having control that fine
at that distance. http://tinyurl.com/3c2dy9—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:34am
dammit, they were not thinking it is later - they were just late!—@vojtechtoman
@vojtechtoman do u know if there is a generic dynamic error code (e.g. for p:error)—@cutlass
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:42am
Looking forwards to new Red Dwarf episodes today/Sat/Sun (in UK) on Dave at 9pm.—@abcoates
Friday at 03:15pm
Alabama congressman says 17 of his colleagues are socialists. Yeah? So? http://tinyurl.com/ccwy9n—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:28pm
If Google had a bank... their web site wouldn't tell you that you can't search amongst
transactions older than 3 months.—@avernet
Friday at 09:18pm
Harper's Island (by DVR, naturally): about what I expected. Pass.—@ndw
Saturday at 07:26am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:08am
Is it just me or do people intuitively distrust websites for software featuring pictures
of people in suits looking dynamic?—@tommorris
Saturday at 08:30am
Bleh. Generated XML with printf statements and got some of the quotes wrong. My bad.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:13pm
Regret I didn't choose an efficient method to slurp up 19k XML files. I thought it
would be OK to spin up the JVM that many times? Really?—@ndw
Saturday at 12:21pm
Saturday at 01:40pm
Ask MarkLogic Server to find the distinct values among a few 100K and it just hands
all 33 back a fraction of a second later.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 03:31pm
Yeah - taxes completed and mailed. Why is the tax code so complicated? killed at least
1 tree printing all the required forms!—@harveybetty
@harveybetty It's complicated to keep the rich rich, of course.—@ndw
Saturday at 08:57pm
"Better off Ted" is pitch perfect.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:00pm
You know your place isn't that big when you can vacuum it all without switching outlets...—@abdelazer
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:59pm
Oh dear $DEITY! Please pardon me while I barf on my shoes. http://preparemetrokc.org/ For pity's sake, people...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:29pm
Just wondering how document formats managed to rise to the level of 'national security
and soverenity'. No one cared for decades.—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan I suppose it's a success of kinds for structured markup -- though maybe, not as
we know it ;-)—@al3xbrown
@al3xbrown I think everyone has lost sight of the goal. Can I has my SGML back? Plz? Kthxbai—@fiberartisan
@fiberartisan All your SGML are belong to us.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:47pm
@fiberartisan <seriously>Does anybody miss *anything* about SGML?</>—@al3xbrown
Sunday at 04:16pm
27,961 XML Calabash traces loaded: 13,555 pipelines, 393 of which aborted with dynamic
errors. Tomorrow: data mining.—@ndw